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Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart by Matthew Fox, Eckhart

• Matthew Fox's comprehensive translation of Meister Eckhart's sermons is a meeting of true prophets across hundreds of years that results in a spirituality for the new millennium.

• A brilliant interpretation of Eckhart's teachings on creation spirituality.

Passion for Creation (formerly Breakthrough) is Matthew Fox's comprehensive translation of and original commentary on the critical German and Latin texts of 37 sermons by Meister Eckhart, the noted 14th-century Dominican priest, preacher, and mystic. The goodness of creation, the holiness of all things, the divine blood in each person, the need to let go and let bethese are among Eckhart's themes, themes that the best-selling author Matthew Fox brilliantly interprets and explains for today's reader.

Passion for Creation will be embraced by theologians, students, and all seekers of truth. It will be especially welcomed by those interested in creation spirituality, which Eckhart advocated six centuries ago and which Matthew Fox has promoted as a spiritual path for the new millennium. Simply put, this book is a meeting of two prophets across hundreds of years. The outcome of that meeting is a fount of wisdom.

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About the Author

The first person to translate the work of Hildegard von Bingen into English, Matthew Fox is the founder and president of the University of Creation Spirituality and codirector of The Naropa Institute’s master’s program in Creation Spirituality, both in Oakland, California.

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The first person to translate the work of Hildegard von Bingen into English, Matthew Fox is the founder and president of the University of Creation Spirituality and codirector of The Naropa Institute’s master’s program in Creation Spirituality, both in Oakland, California.

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The first person to translate the work of Hildegard von Bingen into English, Matthew Fox is the founder and president of the University of Creation Spirituality and codirector of The Naropa Institute’s master’s program in Creation Spirituality, both in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Path One: Creation Sermon One: All Creatures are Words of God Sermon Two: Creation: A Flowing Out but Remaining Within Sermon Three: How Creatures are God and How God Becomes Where Creatures Express Him Sermon Four: The Holiness of Being Sermon Five: How All Creatures Share an Equality of Being Sermon Six: The Greatness of the Human Person Sermon Seven: The Bigness of the Human Person Sermon Eight: This is Spirituality: Waking Up Sermon Nine: Waking Up to the Nearness of God's Kingdom Sermon Ten: A God Who Rejoices and Suffers, Blesses and Consoles

Path Two: Letting Go and Letting Be Sermon Eleven: Divinity's Dark Side Sermon Twelve: Sinking Eternally into God Sermon Thirteen: Outside God There is Nothing but Nothing Sermon Fourteen: Letting God be God in You Sermon Fifteen: How a Radical Letting Go Becomes a True Letting Be Sermon Sixteen: Letting the Will Go Sermon Seventeen: Letting the Intellect Go and Experiencing Pure Ignorance Sermon Eighteen: Letting Go of Intellect Creates A Transformation of Knowledge Sermon Nineteen: Wisdom and Fiery LoveNot Repressionare the Results of Letting Go Sermon Twenty: How Letting Go and Letting Be are to Bear Fruit Path Three: Breakthrough and Giving Birth to Self and God Sermon Twenty-One: Three Births: Ours, God's, and Ourselves as God's Children Sermon Twenty-Two: Our Divinity and God's Divinity: To Be God is to Give Birth Sermon Twenty-Three: We are Children of God and Mothers of God Sermon Twenty-Four: We Are Other Christs Sermon Twenty-Five: Our Divinity: The Reason God Became a Human Being Sermon Twenty-Six: The Holy Spirit, Like a Rapid River, Divinizes Us Sermon Twenty-Seven: How All Creatures Experience the Divine Repose Sermon Twenty-Eight: Where the Soul is, There is God Sermon Twenty-Nine: Be You Creative as God is Creative

Path Four: The New Creation: Compassion and Social Justice Sermon Thirty: Be Compassionate as Your Creator in Heaven is Compassionate Sermon Thirty-One: Compassion is an oceanThe Mystical Side to Compassion Sermon Thirty-Two: Driving Merchant Mentalities from Our Souls: Economics and Compassion Sermon Thirty-Three: Justice, the Work of Compassion Sermon Thirty-Four: When Our Work Becomes a Spiritual Work Working in the World Sermon Thirty-Five: Bread is Given us for Others, on Account of Others, and With OthersEspecially the Indigent Sermon Thirty-Six: Everyone an Aristocrat, Everyone a Royal Person Sermon Thirty-Seven: Compassion as Celebration

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Introduction

Path One: Creation Sermon One: All Creatures are Words of God Sermon Two: Creation: A Flowing Out but Remaining Within Sermon Three: How Creatures are God and How God Becomes Where Creatures Express Him Sermon Four: The Holiness of Being Sermon Five: How All Creatures Share an Equality of Being Sermon Six: The Greatness of the Human Person Sermon Seven: The Bigness of the Human Person Sermon Eight: This is Spirituality: Waking Up Sermon Nine: Waking Up to the Nearness of God's Kingdom Sermon Ten: A God Who Rejoices and Suffers, Blesses and Consoles

Path Two: Letting Go and Letting Be Sermon Eleven: Divinity's Dark Side Sermon Twelve: Sinking Eternally into God Sermon Thirteen: Outside God There is Nothing but Nothing Sermon Fourteen: Letting God be God in You Sermon Fifteen: How a Radical Letting Go Becomes a True Letting Be Sermon Sixteen: Letting the Will Go Sermon Seventeen: Letting the Intellect Go and Experiencing Pure Ignorance Sermon Eighteen: Letting Go of Intellect Creates A Transformation of Knowledge Sermon Nineteen: Wisdom and Fiery LoveNot Repressionare the Results of Letting Go Sermon Twenty: How Letting Go and Letting Be are to Bear Fruit Path Three: Breakthrough and Giving Birth to Self and God Sermon Twenty-One: Three Births: Ours, God's, and Ourselves as God's Children Sermon Twenty-Two: Our Divinity and God's Divinity: To Be God is to Give Birth Sermon Twenty-Three: We are Children of God and Mothers of God Sermon Twenty-Four: We Are Other Christs Sermon Twenty-Five: Our Divinity: The Reason God Became a Human Being Sermon Twenty-Six: The Holy Spirit, Like a Rapid River, Divinizes Us Sermon Twenty-Seven: How All Creatures Experience the Divine Repose Sermon Twenty-Eight: Where the Soul is, There is God Sermon Twenty-Nine: Be You Creative as God is Creative

Path Four: The New Creation: Compassion and Social Justice Sermon Thirty: Be Compassionate as Your Creator in Heaven is Compassionate Sermon Thirty-One: Compassion is an oceanThe Mystical Side to Compassion Sermon Thirty-Two: Driving Merchant Mentalities from Our Souls: Economics and Compassion Sermon Thirty-Three: Justice, the Work of Compassion Sermon Thirty-Four: When Our Work Becomes a Spiritual Work Working in the World Sermon Thirty-Five: Bread is Given us for Others, on Account of Others, and With OthersEspecially the Indigent Sermon Thirty-Six: Everyone an Aristocrat, Everyone a Royal Person Sermon Thirty-Seven: Compassion as Celebration

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Introduction

Path One: Creation Sermon One: All Creatures are Words of God Sermon Two: Creation: A Flowing Out but Remaining Within Sermon Three: How Creatures are God and How God Becomes Where Creatures Express Him Sermon Four: The Holiness of Being Sermon Five: How All Creatures Share an Equality of Being Sermon Six: The Greatness of the Human Person Sermon Seven: The Bigness of the Human Person Sermon Eight: This is Spirituality: Waking Up Sermon Nine: Waking Up to the Nearness of God's Kingdom Sermon Ten: A God Who Rejoices and Suffers, Blesses and Consoles

Path Two: Letting Go and Letting Be Sermon Eleven: Divinity's Dark Side Sermon Twelve: Sinking Eternally into God Sermon Thirteen: Outside God There is Nothing but Nothing Sermon Fourteen: Letting God be God in You Sermon Fifteen: How a Radical Letting Go Becomes a True Letting Be Sermon Sixteen: Letting the Will Go Sermon Seventeen: Letting the Intellect Go and Experiencing Pure Ignorance Sermon Eighteen: Letting Go of Intellect Creates A Transformation of Knowledge Sermon Nineteen: Wisdom and Fiery LoveNot Repressionare the Results of Letting Go Sermon Twenty: How Letting Go and Letting Be are to Bear Fruit Path Three: Breakthrough and Giving Birth to Self and God Sermon Twenty-One: Three Births: Ours, God's, and Ourselves as God's Children Sermon Twenty-Two: Our Divinity and God's Divinity: To Be God is to Give Birth Sermon Twenty-Three: We are Children of God and Mothers of God Sermon Twenty-Four: We Are Other Christs Sermon Twenty-Five: Our Divinity: The Reason God Became a Human Being Sermon Twenty-Six: The Holy Spirit, Like a Rapid River, Divinizes Us Sermon Twenty-Seven: How All Creatures Experience the Divine Repose Sermon Twenty-Eight: Where the Soul is, There is God Sermon Twenty-Nine: Be You Creative as God is Creative

Path Four: The New Creation: Compassion and Social Justice Sermon Thirty: Be Compassionate as Your Creator in Heaven is Compassionate Sermon Thirty-One: Compassion is an oceanThe Mystical Side to Compassion Sermon Thirty-Two: Driving Merchant Mentalities from Our Souls: Economics and Compassion Sermon Thirty-Three: Justice, the Work of Compassion Sermon Thirty-Four: When Our Work Becomes a Spiritual Work Working in the World Sermon Thirty-Five: Bread is Given us for Others, on Account of Others, and With OthersEspecially the Indigent Sermon Thirty-Six: Everyone an Aristocrat, Everyone a Royal Person Sermon Thirty-Seven: Compassion as Celebration

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Introduction

Path One: Creation Sermon One: All Creatures are Words of God Sermon Two: Creation: A Flowing Out but Remaining Within Sermon Three: How Creatures are God and How God Becomes Where Creatures Express Him Sermon Four: The Holiness of Being Sermon Five: How All Creatures Share an Equality of Being Sermon Six: The Greatness of the Human Person Sermon Seven: The Bigness of the Human Person Sermon Eight: This is Spirituality: Waking Up Sermon Nine: Waking Up to the Nearness of God's Kingdom Sermon Ten: A God Who Rejoices and Suffers, Blesses and Consoles

Path Two: Letting Go and Letting Be Sermon Eleven: Divinity's Dark Side Sermon Twelve: Sinking Eternally into God Sermon Thirteen: Outside God There is Nothing but Nothing Sermon Fourteen: Letting God be God in You Sermon Fifteen: How a Radical Letting Go Becomes a True Letting Be Sermon Sixteen: Letting the Will Go Sermon Seventeen: Letting the Intellect Go and Experiencing Pure Ignorance Sermon Eighteen: Letting Go of Intellect Creates A Transformation of Knowledge Sermon Nineteen: Wisdom and Fiery LoveNot Repressionare the Results of Letting Go Sermon Twenty: How Letting Go and Letting Be are to Bear Fruit Path Three: Breakthrough and Giving Birth to Self and God Sermon Twenty-One: Three Births: Ours, God's, and Ourselves as God's Children Sermon Twenty-Two: Our Divinity and God's Divinity: To Be God is to Give Birth Sermon Twenty-Three: We are Children of God and Mothers of God Sermon Twenty-Four: We Are Other Christs Sermon Twenty-Five: Our Divinity: The Reason God Became a Human Being Sermon Twenty-Six: The Holy Spirit, Like a Rapid River, Divinizes Us Sermon Twenty-Seven: How All Creatures Experience the Divine Repose Sermon Twenty-Eight: Where the Soul is, There is God Sermon Twenty-Nine: Be You Creative as God is Creative

Path Four: The New Creation: Compassion and Social Justice Sermon Thirty: Be Compassionate as Your Creator in Heaven is Compassionate Sermon Thirty-One: Compassion is an oceanThe Mystical Side to Compassion Sermon Thirty-Two: Driving Merchant Mentalities from Our Souls: Economics and Compassion Sermon Thirty-Three: Justice, the Work of Compassion Sermon Thirty-Four: When Our Work Becomes a Spiritual Work Working in the World Sermon Thirty-Five: Bread is Given us for Others, on Account of Others, and With OthersEspecially the Indigent Sermon Thirty-Six: Everyone an Aristocrat, Everyone a Royal Person Sermon Thirty-Seven: Compassion as Celebration

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